Quote of the Night

Art preserves, and it is the only thing in the world that is preserved.

The work of art is a being of sensation and nothing else: it exists in itself.

The artist’s greatest difficulty is to make it stand up on its own.

--- Deleuze, Gilles. “What Is Philosophy?.”

TIL: luftmensch

"Luftmensch" was first introduced to English prose in 1907, when Israel Zangwill wrote, "The word 'Luftmensch' flew into Barstein's mind. Nehemiah was not an earth-man. . .. He was an air-man, floating on facile wings."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luftmensch